Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 5, No 1 (2016): Serie D

THE USE OF THE SHOW, DON’T TELL TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING WRITING OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS STUDENTS

Fitri Ramadhani Lukman (English Department Faculty of Languages and Arts State University of Padang)
Saunir Saun (English Department Faculty of Languages and Arts State University of Padang)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Sep 2016

Abstract

This paper is aimed to discuss about the use of The Show Don’t Tell  technique which can develop students’ writing ability. In the beginning, the teacher explains the elements of descriptive text. Next, the theacher can use The Show Don’t Tell technique as an exercise to help the students develop ther writing ability.in this activity, the students will be divided into some groups which consist of ,at least, five students. After that, each group is asked to prepare the sheet that will be used to write after the teacher give a picture as a topic. The topic of each group will be different one and another. Next, each student in each group write a sentence which relates to the topic given. They will do this activity until the last member in each group. Before they submit the paper, the teacher asks them to check the correctness of their writing with their group. After applying this activity, it is hoped that students’ ability in writing descriptive text will increase and also can get their interest to write descriptive text easily because this activity is really fun.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jelt

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Language Teaching is a journal published by English Language Teaching Study Program of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang. This journal is published three times a year (March, June, and September). The main purpose of this journal is to advance and foster English Language Teaching or ...